> assessing whether someone will be a good employee for the next few years based on a few short meetings is really hard Predicting the future is very difficult

> assessing whether someone will be a good employee for the next few years based on a few short meetings is really hard Predicting the future is very difficult, and therefore probably not what interviews are designed to optimise for. Interviews probably optimise for something like: The candidate seemed like a reasonable choice at the time / cover-your-arse scenario.